There is now a rich literature on the ways sexuality is geographically situated, mediated and constituted. There is rather less on how sexual interactions are scripted within space and time. Drawing from symbolic interactionist ...

Which came first, the teenager or the social scientist? This article explores the rise of the social scientific study of the adolescent in 1940s and 50s New Zealand. Our social science scene came of age during these decades, ...

The Probation Service has shifted from its roots in social work and the use of benevolent care and control activities towards a corrections focused agency, charged with the task of reducing re-offending and protecting the ...

Thrombocytopenia Cargeeg is a rare autosomal dominant disorder identified in a New Zealand family with low platelet counts. It is caused by a heterozygous mutation (G41S) in the CYCS gene, which encodes for cytochrome c ...

The subjective experience of lying has been broadly theorized in deception research, with preference to the idea that humans feel either fear, guilt, or excitement (Ekman, 1985). Moreover, some authors suggest that ...

Historical analysis of sex education materials, as well as of the debates that surround them, can shed light upon the construction of sexuality in particular contexts. This article examines some of these materials and ...

New Zealand (NZ) soils are low in iodine and consequently NZ has a history of iodine deficiency. Mild iodine deficiency has a number of adverse consequences including impaired cognition in children and an increased risk ...

Supervised contact centres, where a child may maintain contact with a parent (mother or father) in a safe and supervised environment, have been available in New Zealand since the early 1990s. This article explores the ...

Parents with children from both past and current unions create complex stepfamilies. The author investigated the association of past-union children with intentions for a second or third child in the current union of 1,739 ...

In the English-speaking world during the 1990s, the mass media contained much discussion of political correctness. Cultural politics in general, and ques- tions of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality in particular, have since ...